A Really Mixed Showing

Updated Jan. 18, 2010 11:59 p.m. ET

Correction: The Dogs of the Dow theory calls for investing at the beginning of a year in the 10 Dow industrial stocks that had the highest dividend yields on the preceding Dec. 31. Sometimes, all of the highest yielders are issues that have fallen the most and maintained their dividend, but that wasn't the case in 2009. Thus, the Dow Dogs list in the table, A Really Mixed Showing, shouldn't have included General Electric (ticker: GE), Wal-Mart (WMT), Procter & Gamble (PG) or ExxonMobil (XOM).